Author: PALGRAVE, FRANCIS TURNER.
Title: Gems of English Art of this Century Twenty-four Pictures from National Collections Printed in Colours by Leighton Brothers
Description: 1869, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, George Routledge, London, 1869. 4to, viii, 144p. 24 colour plates with tissue guards, Slight wear, minor repairs to 2 plates. Nr fine copy in the original spectacular decorative gilt binding on blue cloth, all edges gilt. See McLean, Victorian Book Design p194 & 221, and 'The Art of Publishers' Bookbindings', [Grolier Club, New York], 2000 p36. A very attractive Sixties binding. Near Fine.

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